166
166
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 166
favorite 0
quote 0
over the past three months you've seen the romney campaigns, republicans on the defensive. they finally got some very good news, and i think what's going to end up happening in the election is how the campaigns respond. you saw president obama respond very forcefully yesterday, also told. you saw the romney campaign try to build from its momentum on wednesday night. we've now kind of entered a new phase of this campaign, and it's going to be really interesting what goes into the days ahead and also those debates ahead. >> "the daily beast" has a headline, "blame obama's lousy debate on john kerry. bring bill clinton as his debate coach." that's one person's opinion of the matter. nevertheless, no chance in that happening, but we know from what david axelrod has said and others, there will likely be a strategy change for the president in the next debate. >> no one knows why the president didn't do as well. i think that you're going to see a more focused president obama. actually, a more focused obama campaign team on preparation. this is a conversation we had about mitt romn
over the past three months you've seen the romney campaigns, republicans on the defensive. they finally got some very good news, and i think what's going to end up happening in the election is how the campaigns respond. you saw president obama respond very forcefully yesterday, also told. you saw the romney campaign try to build from its momentum on wednesday night. we've now kind of entered a new phase of this campaign, and it's going to be really interesting what goes into the days ahead and...
93
93
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 93
favorite 0
quote 0
we now have a new issue in this campaign now that romney has tried to elude the bonds of the republican right and the people who control the party and have up until now, and that is the basic honesty and character of mitt romney. it might be that he can convince the american people that he is the centrist person who we saw on that stage the other night. but it is a new mitt romney. it didn't exist before in this campaign. it might have existed when he was running against ted kennedy for the senate in 1994 and then after he lost that race and started moving to the presidency, he's been moving increasingly toward being controlled by the republican right message. he picked the vice presidential candidate who most embodies that message, and that is paul ryan, instead of picking portman, who would have sent a clear signal to the electorate that, oh, i'm george romney, i am this centrist candidate who wants to see a big tent republican party. let's see it for real. so far what we've seen is some talk on a debate in which he unquestionably faced a president of the united states who was not pre
we now have a new issue in this campaign now that romney has tried to elude the bonds of the republican right and the people who control the party and have up until now, and that is the basic honesty and character of mitt romney. it might be that he can convince the american people that he is the centrist person who we saw on that stage the other night. but it is a new mitt romney. it didn't exist before in this campaign. it might have existed when he was running against ted kennedy for the...
189
189
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 189
favorite 0
quote 0
. >> and vice president joe biden was campaigning in iowa saying that mitt romney flip-flopped on his own tax cut plan that was the center piece of the gop campaign and biden challenged the republicans on the tax issue. >> you know the phrase they always use, "obama and biden want to raise taxes by $1 trillion. guess what? yes, we do in one regard. we want to let that $1 trillion tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have the bear the burden of all that money going to the super wealthy. that's not a tax raise. that's called fairness where i come from. >> and last night on "politics nation," jared bernstein explained to al sharpton that the math in mitt romney's tax plan doesn't add up. >> if you're going to cut taxes 20% across the board, which is mitt romney's plan, you're going to blow a $5 trillion hole over ten years in the government's revenue. now, what governor romney says is i can make that up by closing tax expenditures and loopholes, but there's two problems with that. one, the arithmetic. if you look at people over 200,000, just look at the wealthiest couple of percent
. >> and vice president joe biden was campaigning in iowa saying that mitt romney flip-flopped on his own tax cut plan that was the center piece of the gop campaign and biden challenged the republicans on the tax issue. >> you know the phrase they always use, "obama and biden want to raise taxes by $1 trillion. guess what? yes, we do in one regard. we want to let that $1 trillion tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have the bear the burden of all that money going to the...
147
147
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 147
favorite 0
quote 0
despite being the last republican to occupy the white house he was nowhere to be seen at the republican national convention but is mitt romney now embracing a little bit of w.? as the republican nominee moved toward the center of wednesday's debate was he he trying to wrap himself in the blanket of compassionate conservatism. >> we have to work on a collaborative basis not because we're going to compromise our principle, but because there's common ground and the challenges america faces right now, look, the reason i'm in this race, is there are people that are really hurting today in this country. >> here to unpack that now is msnbc's chris hayes, host of "up with chris hayes" here for a segment we like to call up now. chris, we talked about -- >> everyone at home get that. >> up now. >> howard was talking about compassionate conservatism as we went to break. your thesis on this? >> russ dellfit at the times wrote a smart blog post. if you look at how george w. bush ran in 2000 he had all this baggage, a plutocrat, the son of a president, out of -- he could very easily be caricatured as
despite being the last republican to occupy the white house he was nowhere to be seen at the republican national convention but is mitt romney now embracing a little bit of w.? as the republican nominee moved toward the center of wednesday's debate was he he trying to wrap himself in the blanket of compassionate conservatism. >> we have to work on a collaborative basis not because we're going to compromise our principle, but because there's common ground and the challenges america faces...
207
207
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 207
favorite 0
quote 0
the republicans may be high fiving behind closed doors over mitt romney's debate performance, but style won't matter a bit if romney fails to move the needle in the important state of ohio. early voting started there tuesday, and turnout could be a record breaker. some counties are reporting twice the number of voters than they got in 2008. this kind of turnout is exactly what the republicans were fearing. they, they tried to stop early voting, didn't they? but their tactics didn't hold up in court. now romney realizes that he has to win ohio the old fashioned way. he has to earn it. as a result, ohio got a lot of love from both candidates during the debate. >> i was in dayton, ohio, and a woman grabbed my arm. she said, i've been out of work since may. >> at cleveland clinic, one of the best health care systems in the world, they actually provide great care cheaper than average. >> your example of the cleveland clinic is my case in point. >> the autoworkers that you meet in toledo or detroit take such pride in building the best cars in the world not just because of a paycheck, but beca
the republicans may be high fiving behind closed doors over mitt romney's debate performance, but style won't matter a bit if romney fails to move the needle in the important state of ohio. early voting started there tuesday, and turnout could be a record breaker. some counties are reporting twice the number of voters than they got in 2008. this kind of turnout is exactly what the republicans were fearing. they, they tried to stop early voting, didn't they? but their tactics didn't hold up in...
222
222
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 222
favorite 0
quote 0
before my twitter feed was you guys do everything you can to destroy mitt romney and the republicans. now it's -- you guys are propping romney up. what are you doing? >> you can always tell who is losing. you can always tell who is losing by looking at the rage on the twitter feed. >> that's true. it's a great way of putting it. the ragier it is on one side you're like uh-oh. they're in trouble. >> exactly. miles? >> look, historically, you said this, if you had more than 7.3% unemployment, no president has ever won. yet the polls indicated that obama was in the lead. you need 3% gdp growth to keep unemployment flat. we're going to wait and get numbers. and they're going to be what they're going to be. 113,000 new jobs, 118,000 new jobs. the practical reality is we had 2.5% gdp growth a year ago. we have 1.3% gdp growth. it's nowhere near 3%. we are creating more unemployment. now they'll come out with new numbers. they're going to say it was 8.1% unemployment, 8.2%. and you say, well, you know for sure there's less people employed. how is that the case? so they'll say more structural
before my twitter feed was you guys do everything you can to destroy mitt romney and the republicans. now it's -- you guys are propping romney up. what are you doing? >> you can always tell who is losing. you can always tell who is losing by looking at the rage on the twitter feed. >> that's true. it's a great way of putting it. the ragier it is on one side you're like uh-oh. they're in trouble. >> exactly. miles? >> look, historically, you said this, if you had more...
144
144
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 144
favorite 0
quote 0
a romney surrogate agrees. >> the republican, the conservative surrogate in the primary is always going to run right and come back to the general for the opposite is of the democrat. that's all you're seeing here. it's very typical. we strong conservatives understand that. so this is campaign strategy. >> it's typical campaign strategy. that's what it's all about? we all know the man caught on tape is the real mitt romney. he's still mr. 47% and no etch-a-sketch can erase it. joining me now is joy reid, msnbc contributor and managing editor of thegrio.com. and krystal ball. thank you both for joining me. krystal, let me start with you. why he is apologizing for this 47% so late? >> because i think it's damaging and they have seen how it's impacting people. they saw this video and say, finally, we see who this guy is. is he the guy that he was in massachusetts? when they saw that, they said, this is the guy and it's exactly who we thought he was and i will also say, when the comments were first unnerved and he did that press conference, if he he had totally walked it back and apologized
a romney surrogate agrees. >> the republican, the conservative surrogate in the primary is always going to run right and come back to the general for the opposite is of the democrat. that's all you're seeing here. it's very typical. we strong conservatives understand that. so this is campaign strategy. >> it's typical campaign strategy. that's what it's all about? we all know the man caught on tape is the real mitt romney. he's still mr. 47% and no etch-a-sketch can erase it....
141
141
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 141
favorite 0
quote 0
today we learn about something to call bls truthism where we have republicans and romney supporters openly saying there's numbers are cooked. i want to put a couple tweets on the screen from earlier today. jack welch said unbelievable job numbers. these chicago guys will do anything. can't debate so change numbers. let's get the second one up. the second theory proposed is from a conservative righter. i don't think bls cooked the numbers. i think a bunch of dems lied about getting job. that has the same effect. quickly, make your point. it's depressing to ask this question, but how can we be confident because the numbers are legit? >> you have to know something about the bureau of labor statistics. this is an institution with incredible statistical integrity in how they collect, analyze and report the data. this is an absolutely ludicrous claim. we shouldn't give it any oxygen. in fact, half the people who are saying they don't believe the numbers then start citing bls numbers to show other point they want to make. this agency has been reporting these data for decades. the security that go
today we learn about something to call bls truthism where we have republicans and romney supporters openly saying there's numbers are cooked. i want to put a couple tweets on the screen from earlier today. jack welch said unbelievable job numbers. these chicago guys will do anything. can't debate so change numbers. let's get the second one up. the second theory proposed is from a conservative righter. i don't think bls cooked the numbers. i think a bunch of dems lied about getting job. that has...
190
190
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 190
favorite 0
quote 0
intellectual leader of the republican party. ryan is also chairman of the house budget committee which make it is all the more bewildering that when he's invited to explain his budget, the one that mitt romney has endorsed, well, mr. ryan appears to lose his voice. however, vice president joe biden isn't afraid to tell a hard truth. >> obama and biden want to raise tacks by $8 trillion. guess what? yes, we do in one regard. we want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super wealthy. >> karen finney is an msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director and hogan giddily is the former communications director for the rick santorum campaign. welcome to both of you. kar karen, to quote jack nicholson in "a few good men" romney and ryan, they just can't handle the truth can they? >> they can't. the level of intellectual dishonesty, i use the wort intellectual half joking, they took the vice president's comments and truncated them wi
intellectual leader of the republican party. ryan is also chairman of the house budget committee which make it is all the more bewildering that when he's invited to explain his budget, the one that mitt romney has endorsed, well, mr. ryan appears to lose his voice. however, vice president joe biden isn't afraid to tell a hard truth. >> obama and biden want to raise tacks by $8 trillion. guess what? yes, we do in one regard. we want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle...
168
168
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 168
favorite 0
quote 0
but i do think two lasting things were accomplished by romney. one of them is just to buck up his own conservative and republican support. they saw someone they can be enthusiastic about and they had weren't seen that for -- hadn't seen that for quite a while. undermined the stereotype from the negative advertising, supposed to be a monster and 60 some million tuned in and didn't see a monster. that's good for romney in the long term. just the start. >> as someone who's been involved twice in two campaign cycles with george w. bush how in preparing a candidate how do you tell someone to keep looking down at their notes and not be aware of the split screen in take us behind the scenes at what goes on in debate prep? and why the president was not ever looking at either his opponent or at the viewer directly into the camera? >> it's a challenge. first of all it's hard to prep the president of the united states. there's the office, a difficult thing. not like prepping a candidate. >> was it hard to prep george w. bush? >> not so much. but i saw the s
but i do think two lasting things were accomplished by romney. one of them is just to buck up his own conservative and republican support. they saw someone they can be enthusiastic about and they had weren't seen that for -- hadn't seen that for quite a while. undermined the stereotype from the negative advertising, supposed to be a monster and 60 some million tuned in and didn't see a monster. that's good for romney in the long term. just the start. >> as someone who's been involved...
211
211
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 211
favorite 0
quote 0
was notable for romney's aggressiveness in a direct night. here is the great part like a bull to a matador. romney time and again turned toward obama to the tax portraying him hopeless in trying to turn the economy around. like a bull to a matador turned to obama to deliver attacks. like a bull to a matador. and what does a matador do to a bull in the end? ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you turn an entrepreneur's dream... ♪ into a scooter that talks to the cloud? ♪ or make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ how do you help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ or turn 30-million artifacts... ♪ into a high-tech masterpiece? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. whatever your business challenge, when you take a closer look... ...at the best schools in the world... ...you see they all have something very interesting in common. they have teachers... ...with a deeper knowledge of their subjec
was notable for romney's aggressiveness in a direct night. here is the great part like a bull to a matador. romney time and again turned toward obama to the tax portraying him hopeless in trying to turn the economy around. like a bull to a matador turned to obama to deliver attacks. like a bull to a matador. and what does a matador do to a bull in the end? ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you turn an entrepreneur's dream... ♪ into a scooter that talks to the cloud? ♪ or make 70,000 trades a...
254
254
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 254
favorite 0
quote 0
was notable for romney's aggressiveness in a direct night. here is the great part like a bull to a matador. romney time and again turned toward obama to the tax po portraying him hopeless in trying to turn the economy around. like a bull to a matador turned to obama to deliver attacks. like a bull to a matador. and what does a matador do to a bull in the end? hey. hey eddie. i brought your stuff. you don't have to do this. yes i do. i want you to keep this. it'd be weird. take care. you too. [ sighs ] so how did it go? he's upset. [ male announcer ] spend less time at gas stations with best in class fuel economy. it's our most innovative altima ever. ♪ it's our most innovative altima ever. when you take a closer look... ...at the best schools in the world... ...you see they all have something very interesting in common. they have teachers... ...with a deeper knowledge of their subjects. as a result, their students achieve at a higher level. let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our stu
was notable for romney's aggressiveness in a direct night. here is the great part like a bull to a matador. romney time and again turned toward obama to the tax po portraying him hopeless in trying to turn the economy around. like a bull to a matador turned to obama to deliver attacks. like a bull to a matador. and what does a matador do to a bull in the end? hey. hey eddie. i brought your stuff. you don't have to do this. yes i do. i want you to keep this. it'd be weird. take care. you too. [...
140
140
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 140
favorite 0
quote 0
romney's way of presenting himself. he was like an actor who came on playing a bigger role than he normally does, like a big guy, "master and commander" russell crowe. he grew when he came on stage, and he stayed in character as if he wanted to do a couple more hours of it. so prepping him -- and i hadn't seen that mitt romney before. that guy has not been out there. what happened with him? how did he get so ready for that thing? >> i think he and the campaign totally understood what the stakes were, and they prepared and they prepared a lot. i have watched mitt romney over the years, and he has steadily improved, and, you know, people like stuart stevens and beth myers took a lot of heat over the last couple months about the campaign, but those -- i have worked with stuart before in many campaigns, and he's a debate preparation fanatic, and they understood that this would be an opportunity to shift the gears, to reframe the race, and one guy showed up and one guy prepared, and it showed. it really did. you know, a lot
romney's way of presenting himself. he was like an actor who came on playing a bigger role than he normally does, like a big guy, "master and commander" russell crowe. he grew when he came on stage, and he stayed in character as if he wanted to do a couple more hours of it. so prepping him -- and i hadn't seen that mitt romney before. that guy has not been out there. what happened with him? how did he get so ready for that thing? >> i think he and the campaign totally understood...
143
143
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 143
favorite 0
quote 0
shed his manacles of the far right of the tea party fringe of the party which has come to control the republican party and escape it. >> all right. so let's find out what our friday political power panel thinks about that. joining me is msnbc contributor jonathan capehart. also ap opinion writer for "the washington post." democratic strategist chris kofinis and susan dell percent yo. i just give you the heads up we are waiting for the president to come to the podium. when he does we are going to jump to that. jonathan, is this an etch-a-sketch moment for the president after a bad showing at his first debate and having these solid numbers and getting below this 8% unemployment number? >> well, it certainly changes the conversation, at least the short-term conversation, about the president's admittedly poor performance in the debate on wednesday night. and it also sort of strengthens what the president was at least trying to say during the debate, which is he's been trying very hard to, you know, get people back to work. he's put all these things in place that haven't really hit a lot of people ma
shed his manacles of the far right of the tea party fringe of the party which has come to control the republican party and escape it. >> all right. so let's find out what our friday political power panel thinks about that. joining me is msnbc contributor jonathan capehart. also ap opinion writer for "the washington post." democratic strategist chris kofinis and susan dell percent yo. i just give you the heads up we are waiting for the president to come to the podium. when he...
142
142
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 142
favorite 0
quote 0
and, you know, governor romney ought to tell his running mate paul ryan to call up the house republican leadership of what he is a member and get this done. so that we can give security and a guarantee to the middle class of this country and our economy that taxes aren't going to go up next year. >> do you believe the fundamentals of this campaign have changed from wednesday morning to today? >> i don't think so, chuck. obviously though we'll be able to evaluate that in coming days. my sense is, you know, we've got a pretty important lead in some battleground states. >> you don't think that is going to clang? >> we don't think so. first of all you know the president's, you know, got a high support level. you know, 49, 50, 51 depending on the state. we like what we're seeing in terms of early vote and absentee ballot requests. we don't think that is going to change. we're going to be able to measure this. i'm sure the romney campaign says they're raising a lot of money. i'm sure that is true. our supporters are energized. in denver yesterday, in madison yesterday big crowds, enthusiastic
and, you know, governor romney ought to tell his running mate paul ryan to call up the house republican leadership of what he is a member and get this done. so that we can give security and a guarantee to the middle class of this country and our economy that taxes aren't going to go up next year. >> do you believe the fundamentals of this campaign have changed from wednesday morning to today? >> i don't think so, chuck. obviously though we'll be able to evaluate that in coming days....
110
110
Oct 5, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBCW
tv
eye 110
favorite 0
quote 0
if you recall we reported that republicans had been on a witch hunt to root out so-called voter fraud out there. may have found some in their own ranks. the activities of a firm hired by the republican national committee to register voters in florida is the subject of a criminal probe. it turns out florida authorities found enough evidence of suspicious voter registration down there by that firm to warrant a full-blown criminal investigation. the rnc hired the same questionable firm to do voter registration work in four other key swing states, nevada, colorado, virginia, and north carolina. all those states have fired the firm now and so far florida is the only state to open a criminal investigation. judith browne dianis, the co-director of the advancement program which watches some of this stuff. and michael isikoff is an nbc news national investigative correspondent. first of all, when you go out and have phony lists, that's a criminal matter apparently. >> yes, this is serious. the florida department of law enforcement is going to look into it because this is voter fraud. this is v
if you recall we reported that republicans had been on a witch hunt to root out so-called voter fraud out there. may have found some in their own ranks. the activities of a firm hired by the republican national committee to register voters in florida is the subject of a criminal probe. it turns out florida authorities found enough evidence of suspicious voter registration down there by that firm to warrant a full-blown criminal investigation. the rnc hired the same questionable firm to do voter...